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Sunday, April 02, 2006

One Year Today

What a blessing it’s been to be a blogger this past year. I’ve learned so much from so many and I’m grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to share in my understanding with others and to be challenged by theirs. I’ve been given the opportunity to study the scripture with believers from all denominations and to debate theology with scholars a thousand times my better. I’ve been given access to and directed toward volumes of materials that were previously reserved only for those who had time to spend untold hours in numerous libraries. This has all been a great blessing to me.

I’ve watched unity rise up out of diversity and the hardhearted reconciled to the weak minded for the edification of us all. I’ve seen walls that divide us begin to crumble one life at a time. I’ve been given real hope for the future of our faith and the spread of the Gospel by the devotion demonstrated by those here so much younger than myself.

Most of all I’m thankful for the blessed fellowship with believers far and near. I’ve been privileged to partner in prayer with some of the most wonderful children of God from all over the globe and I’ve developed a deep and abiding love for each one. I’ve been encouraged in ways I never dreamed of and we’ve shared in our sorrow and our joy. We’ve joined together in praise and worship. We’ve shared in a laugh and we’ve cried and pleaded for each other before His throne.

I’d like to thank each one of you for the fellowship and for the time you set aside to engage with me in comments, mails, discussion and prayers. I pray that somehow I can repay you in kind for your love and that together we can bring glory to our Lord and further His cause.

29 Comments:

Wow! Sounds like blogging has been very worth while for you. I look forward to being able to spend more time on mine this summer while I'm out of school. Thank you for your comment! Isn't God wonderful, beautiful, and just simply amazing? :-)

We should do a little research and see when specifically our anniversary is. Do you remember who commented first? It was probably me vehemently attacking you. Or it could have been you lovingly encouraging me. Either way, we still operate the same. I attack, you encourage.

Here I am way on the tail end of things congratulating you, Kc, and you and Corrie have been so good and faithful to come by and read me all the time, too. But as you know, my life has been most hectic lately, even with the broken foot.

Congrats on your Blogiversary!! I had mine back in February but was too busy talking about other "stuff" to even mention it to anyone. But it was certainly a milestoen and highwater mark for me. Such a tremendous blessing. How wonderful this Christian blogging world has been for us all.

I saw the doctor yesterday afternoon here at the 4 month mark and x-rays show my foot is still far from healed, so I'm in my boot/cast to my knee for 4 to 8 weeks longer and just hoping against hope the one troublesome area will heal, too, or else I'm going to have to undergo surgery and a bone graft on that bone in my foot.

Please, if you would, continue to pray for my healing as we work to execute all of these wonderful plans of ours to move out of the midst of Katrina Zone to a place a little further, and a lot higher ground, away.

Keep up you blogging, friend. I always enjoy reading your thoughts and all the comments.